{"id":50887,"date":"2017-11-07T05:02:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T05:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=50887"},"modified":"2017-11-07T05:04:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T05:04:26","slug":"no-more-free-windows-10-upgrades-after-december-microsoft-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/no-more-free-windows-10-upgrades-after-december-microsoft-confirms.html","title":{"rendered":"No More Free Windows 10 Upgrades After December, Microsoft Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">No More Free Windows 10 Upgrades After December, Microsoft Confirms<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">No More Free Windows 10 Upgrades After December, Microsoft Confirms:- Windows 10 is starting to get more exclusive as the day goes. Practically everyone, provided they had the hardware, was eligible to get it for free. But Back in July 2016, Microsoft stopped offering free Windows 10 upgrades. Save for one exception: those who use accessibility features were still able to access the free upgrade. But that offer will soon go away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Microsoft has \u2014 rather quietly \u2014 updated its website to reflect this change, revealing that free upgrades for those who are using accessibility features can no longer expect free Windows 10 upgrades after Dec. 31. Microsoft failed to explain why it\u2019s dropping the offer for such users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">The FAQ page now reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">\u201cIf you use assistive technologies, you can upgrade to Windows 10 at no cost as Microsoft continues our efforts to improve the Windows 10 experience for people who use these technologies. Please take advantage of this offer before it expires on December 31, 2017.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">But still: Who in the heck still doesn\u2019t have Windows 10 installed? Well, as it turns out \u2014 a lot. While latest PCs and laptops sold by retailers already have it preinstalled, 46.6 percent of PCs are still running Windows 7, according to NetMarketshare. It\u2019s possible these users either have lacking hardware to run the latest operating system or are intentionally standing their ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Many offices around the world still use Windows 7. Heck, some are still running older ones like Windows XP. So, what\u2019s with that? Well, as Engadget notes, some companies might be feeling a bit of inertia with regard to concerns over compatibility, or regular users maybe just aren\u2019t in a rush to upgrade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">It\u2019s tough to explain Microsoft\u2019s reasoning for this, but it marks an important inflection point for Windows 10, because if the company is now willing to let go of free upgrades, there must already be enough users who have upgraded for Microsoft not to care about the percentage of those who haven\u2019t. Perhaps Microsoft\u2019s plan to convince users to jump into Windows 10 by removing the price barrier worked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">It\u2019s even more important when one considers how Microsoft is approaching Windows 10: It\u2019s treating it not as iterative upgrade, but a definitive operating system that\u2019ll just get better as years go by. It already confirmed that there will be no \u201cWindows 11,\u201d in fact, further proving Windows 10 is going to become the basis by which all future updates are built upon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt;color: #000000\">Are you still not running Windows 10? Why? 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